Caption: Chancellor Durward B. Varner and former student Sue Adams Wyatt unveil plaque - October 18 1969 - Kresge Library ; Plaque text: The students of this university took thought, voted, taxed themselves, and made a substantial gift of books their lasting memorial to person they held in high esteem, Matilda R. WIlson. So serving the university, they remember her who ever made its purposes her own. To her able and vigorous spirit, they subscribe the Matilda R Wilson Memorial Collection.
Unidentified man and woman flank portrait of Charles Evans Hughes, 11th Chief Justice of the United States; 36th Governor of New York; 44th United States Secretary of State. The portrait was donated to Oakland University by Elizabeth Evans Hughes Gossett, daughter of Charles Evans Hughes and one of the university's founding trustees.
Students moving books from old library in Foundation Hall to Kresge Library. Dave Van Rosenberg ; Gene LaRowe (fourth from right) ; Donald O'Dowd and Chancellor Varner at right.